[sdiy] Service Manual Project -

[JH.]

The best way to keep such an archive, ist to keep it _distributed_.
Which is basically what we have right now.
If I need a document that anyone on the list has in electronic form, I 
normally get it when I'm asking.
And also, when someone is asking me, he (or she) normally gets it when I 
have in in eletronic form.
(With a few exceptions that were given to me confidentially.)
What would be the benefit of having them all in _one_ place ??

When a big synth shop asked me if I'd like to buy their printed manual 
collectition when they closed their repair department many years ago, I 
still gave it some thoughts. That was a whole *wall* of folders in a storage 
room, and they asked me for an offer with the hint that it wouldn't be very 
expensive ... and yet I declined, and in retrospect I am glad. That was 
before you could get them all on the web, but only by a couple of years or 
so.
And today? I don't even download everything anymore. I know when I'll need 
it I'll find it.
(All right, when I discover a true rarity, of course I store it - but 
nowadays thats mostly the ones that fall into the "confidential" category 
anyway.)

So, instead of creating a big archive, just go on sharing - it worked well 
over all these years.

JH.

PS.: Anybody got schemos of a Synthanorma Sequencer ? (;->)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seb Francis" <seb at burnit.co.uk>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] - Service Manual Project -


Donald Tillman wrote:
>    > Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 22:16:23 -0400
>    > From: "Mo Rosati" <mo at laurelsteel.com>
>    >
>    > Your right, the biggest concern is BANDWIDTH ( specifically the
>    > cost of bandwidth ).
>
> Huh?  The bandwidth is tiny.  Given that people are posting video
> clips all over the place, the bandwidth requirement of a collection of
> rarely accessed manuals for obscure equipment is truly negligible.
>
>

It's not so tiny.  I posted a 20MB Roland service manual the other day
and noticed my bandwidth usage jump by almost 1GB over a very short
period.  Mind you that's probably a reflection of Roland's current
policy of asking other service manual archives to remove the Roland ones
.. which ties in with the other concern being raised.

Maybe it would help if one had to register and login to see the list of
what manuals were available.  Nothing restrictive, perhaps even a
robots.txt file would do it, but then at least the list of manuals isn't
going to show up in Google when Roland or whoever do a search.  Mind you
then the same is true for anyone else doing a search :-(

Seb


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